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10484: The COVID-19 Mark on Urban Mobility: A Tale of Two Cities’ Journey to Recovery

Aiga Stokenberga, Linda Ellin Maria Ivarsson Molina and Juan Ignacio Fulponi

10483: Can Digital Personalized Learning for Mathematics Remediation Level the Playing Field in Higher Education ? Experimental Evidence from Ecuador

Diego Angel-Urdinola, Ciro Avitabile and Marjorie H Chinen

10482: What Can We Learn from Pre-Primary Quality Assurance Systems ? Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt

Caroline Gould Krafft, Samira Nikaein Towfighian, Abbie Raikes and Rebecca Sayre Mojgani

10481: Consumer Surplus with Incomplete Markets: Applications to Savings and Microfinance

John Ashton Loeser

10480: Territorial Productivity Differences and Dynamics within Latin American Countries

Olivia Severine D'Aoust, Virgilio Galdo and Elena Ianchovichina

10479: Analysis of Teacher Stock versus Flow in Primary Education in East Asia and the Pacific Middle-Income Countries: A Simple Model and Results from Simulation between 2020 and 2030

Nobuyuki Tanaka and Lars M. Sondergaard

10478: Early Impacts of Indonesia’s Investment Reforms: A Preliminary Analysis

Angella Montfaucon, Victor Kidake Senelwa and Aufa Doarest

10477: Firm Consolidation and Labor Market Outcomes

Sabien Dobbelaere, Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz and Sándor Sóvágó

10476: Distributional Effects of Carbon Tax in Ethiopia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Govinda R. Timilsina and Samuel Sebsibie

10475: External Debt, Fiscal Consolidation, and Government Expenditure on Education

Elise Wendlassida Miningou

10474: Learning during the Pandemic: Evidence from Uzbekistan

Syedah Aroob Iqbal and Harry Patrinos

10473: Economics of Political Clientelism and Corruption — A Theoretical Pathway

Rasit Pertev

10472: The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescents’ School Attendance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anna B Kis, Claire Elise Boxho, Isis Gaddis, Mousson Estelle Jamel Koussoube and Lea Marie Rouanet

10471: Do Public Works Programs Have Sustained Impacts ? A Review of Experimental Studies from LMICs

Aanchal Bagga, Marcus Erik Holmlund, Nausheen Khan, Subha Mani, Eric Mvukiyehe and Patrick Premand

10470: A New Distribution Sensitive Index for Measuring Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality

Aart C. Kraay, Christoph Lakner, Berk Özler, Benoit Marie A Decerf, Dean Jolliffe, Olivier Christian Brigitte Sterck and Nishant Yonzan

10469: Cholera Risk in Lusaka: A Geospatial Analysis to Inform Improved Water and Sanitation Provision

Peter William Gething, Sophie Charlotte Emi Ayling, Josses Mugabi, Odete Duarte Muximpua, George Joseph and Solomon Sitinadziwe Kagulura

10468: Trade Credit: Theory and Evidence for Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

Robert J. Cull, Chorching Goh and L. Colin Xu

10467: Examining Business Reform Committees: Findings from a New Global Dataset

Dorina Peteva Georgieva, Varun Eknath and Michael Woolcock

10466: Does Hotter Temperature Increase Poverty and Inequality ? Global Evidence from Subnational Data Analysis

Hai-Anh Dang, Minh Nguyen and Trong-Anh Trinh

10465: Trade and Civil Conflicts

Hoda Assem Mohammed G Hassan Ahmed

10464: Impact of the Russian Invasion on Ukrainian Farmers’ Productivity, Rural Welfare, and Food Security

Klaus W. Deininger, Daniel Ayalew Ali and Ming Fang

10463: Export Diversification from an Activity Perspective: An Exploration Using Occupation Data

Hagen Kruse, Marcel Timmer, Gaaitzen Johannes De Vries and Xianjia Ye

10462: Are Carbon Taxes Good for South Asia?

Valerie Anne Mercer-Blackman, Lazar Milivojevic and Victor Mylonas

10461: Protecting Who ? Optimal Social Protection Responses to Shocks with Limited Information

Carlos Gustavo Ospino Hernandez, Iamele P. Rigolini, Sarah Coll-Black and Ana Maria Oviedo Silva

10460: Measuring Tax Progressivity in Low-Income Countries

Alastair Geoffrey Arthur Thomas

10459: The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab

Sheheryar Banuri, Lucia Milena Murgia and Imtiaz Ul Haq

10458: Bank Ownership and Firm Innovation

Francesca de Nicola, Martin Melecký and Mariana Iootty De Paiva Dias

10457: Struggling with the Rain: Weather Variability and Food Insecurity Forecasting in Mauritania

Paul Blanchard, Oscar Anil Ishizawa Escudero, Thibaut Humbert and Rafael Van Der Borght

10456: Using Paradata to Assess Respondent Burden and Interviewer Effects in Household Surveys: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ardina Roosiany Hasanbasri, Talip Kilic, Gayatri B. Koolwal and Heather G. Moylan

10455: An Empirical Analysis of the Social Contract in the Middle East and North Africa: Region and the Role of Digitalization in Its Transformation

Farid Gasmi, Dorgyles Christ Maurel Kouakou, Paul Noumba Um and Pedro Rojas Milla

10454: Exporting and Technology Adoption in Brazil

Xavier Cirera, Diego Adolfo Comin, Marcio Cruz, Kyung Min Lee and Antonio Soares Martins Neto

10453: Droughts and Deficits: The Global Impact of Droughts on Economic Growth

Esha Dilip Zaveri, Richard Damania and Nathan Lee Engle

10452: Children and the Fiscal Space in Ethiopia

Alemayehu Ambel, Getachew Belete and Oliver Fiala

10451: Measuring Globalization When It Is Needed the Most: A Long-Run Analysis

Sebastian Franco Bedoya

10450: Towards a More Nuanced Approach to Measuring Housing Affordability: Evidence from Pakistan

Catherine Lynch, Ashna Singh and Yan F. Zhang

10449: Weighting Justice Reform Costs and Benefits Using Machine Learning and Modern Data Science

Christopher Brian Mahony, Matthew Manning and Gabriel Wong

10448: Adjusting to Transitory Shocks: Worker Impact, Firm Channels, and (Lack of) Income Support

Ana Margarida Fernandes and Joana C. G. Silva

10447: A Methodology for Updating International Middle-Class Lines for the Latin American and Caribbean Region

Jaime Estuardo Fernandez Romero, Sergio Daniel Olivieri and Diana Marcela Sanchez Castro

10446: Sectoral Productivity Shock, Regional Differences in Intersectoral Linkages, and Structural Transformation in Ghana

Saumik Paul and Dhushyanth Raju

10445: Measuring Global Economic Activity Using Air Pollution

Irene Anne Sophie Ezran, Stephen David Morris, Martin Rama and Daniel Riera-Crichton

10444: Corruption Risks and State Capture in Bulgarian Public Procurement

Mihaly Fazekas, Viktoriia Poltoratskaia and Bence Tóth

10443: Are Vaccination Campaigns Misinformed ? Experimental Evidence from COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Yannick Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg and Alberto Zezza

10442: Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Weather Shocks

Anna Fruttero, Daniel Zefanya Halim, Chiara Broccolini, Bernardo Dantas Pereira Coelho, Horace Mahugnon Akim Gninafon and Noel Muller

10441: The Effects of Communal Violence on Women’s Marital Outcomes

Devaki Ghose and Divya Pandey

10440: The Role of Cash Transfers in Smoothing the Income Shock of COVID-19 in the Arab Republic of Egypt

Romeo Jacky Gansey, Maria Eugenia Genoni and Imane Abdelfattah Ahmed Refaat Helmy

10438: A Review of Human Development and Environmental Outcomes

Diego Ambasz, Anshuman Kamal Gupta and Harry Patrinos

10437: Implications of Using Nonstandard Poverty Lines: An Illustration Using the Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Benoit Marie A Decerf, Maria Eugenia Genoni, Imane Abdelfattah Ahmed Refaat Helmy and Guillermo Federico Sanz

10436: The Effects of Energy Prices on Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from Chile

Juergen Amann and Arti Goswami Grover

10435: The Impact of Tax Blacklisting

Matthew Edward Collin

10434: Labor Market Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions

Mauricio Ulate, Jose Vasquez and Roman David Zarate Vasquez

10433: The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality

Piotr Lewandowski, Karol Madoń and Deborah Elisabeth Winkler

10432: Biodiversity and Finance: A Preliminary Assessment of Physical Risks for the Banking Sector in Emerging Markets

Pietro Calice, Federico Alfonso Diaz Kalan, Nepomuk Max Ferdinand Dunz and Faruk Miguel Liriano

10431: More Benefits, Fewer Children: How Regularization Affects Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Ana Ibáñez, Sandra Viviana Rozo Villarraga and Salvador Traettino

10430: The People’s Voice and Access to Sanitation

John Nana Darko Francois, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Johnson Kakeu and Christelle Signo Kouame

10429: Poverty Mapping in the Age of Machine Learning

Paul Andres Corral Rodas, Heath Linn Henderson and Sandra Carolina Segovia Juarez

10428: Fiscal Procyclicality in Commodity Exporting Countries: How Much Does It Pour and Why ?

Francisco Arroyo Marioli and Carlos A. Vegh

10427: International Tax Spillovers and Tangible Investment, with Implications for the Global Minimum Tax

Michael Keen, Li Liu and Hayley Pallan

10426: Price Adjustments and Poverty Measurement

Nicola Amendola, Giulia Mancini, Silvia Redaelli and Giovanni Vecchi

10425: Liberian Women Count: Evidence from a Macrosimulation of the Gender Dividend

Mahesh Venkat Karra, Mitja Del Bono, Joshua Kent Wilde, Wendy Cunningham and Sarika Gupta Ringwala

10424: Uncertainty in Preferential Trade Agreements: Impact of AGOA Suspensions on Exports

Habtamu Edjigu, Shushanik Hakobyan and Woubet Kassa

10423: Blackout or Blanked Out ? Monitoring the Quality of Electricity Service in Developing Countries

William Hutchins Seitz, Yuya Kudo and João Pedro Azevedo

10422: The Elusive Link Between FDI and Economic Growth

Agustín Bénétrix, Hayley Pallan and Ugo Panizza

10421: Structural and Behavioral Barriers to Improving Development Outcomes: The Case of Maternal Care in Haiti

Emilie Bernadette Perge, Jimena Llopis Abella and Anna Fruttero

10420: The Longer Students Were Out of School, the Less They Learned

Harry Patrinos

10419: Using Behavioral Science to Increase Women’s Participation in Natural Resource Management in Mexico

Graciela Reyes-Retana, Gonzalo Antonio Pons, Katharina Siegmann, Zeina Afif, Margarita Gomez-Garcia, Pablo Soto-Mota and Carmen Elena Castaneda Farill

10418: Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-Based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Md. Nazmul Ahsan, M. Shahe Emran and Forhad J. Shilpi

10417: Leveraging Social Cohesion for Development Outcomes

Shreya Chatterjee, Marine Gassier and Nikolas Myint

10416: Improving Reading Abilities, Attitudes and Practices during COVID: Results from a Home-Based Intervention of Supplementary Texts for Young Readers in Cambodia

Michael F. Crawford, David Joseph Rutkowski and Leslie Ann Rutkowski

10415: The Effects of Transportation Infrastructure on Deforestation in the Amazon: A General Equilibrium Approach

Juliano Assunção, Rafael Carlquist Rabelo De Araujo and Arthur Amorim Braganca

10414: Fit for (re)purpose ? A New Look at the Spatial Distribution of Agricultural Subsidies

Ebad Ebadi, Jason Daniel Russ and Esha Dilip Zaveri

10413: Improving Enrollment and Learning through Videos and Mobiles: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria

Victor Hugo Orozco Olvera and Ericka G. Rascon Ramirez

10412: Input Subsidies and the Depletion of Natural Capital: Chinese Distant Water Fishing

Aaron Gabriel Ratliffe Englander, Jihua Zhang, Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Qutu Jiang, Mingzhao Hu, Olivier Deschenes and Christopher Costello

10411: Climate Change, Urban Expansion, and Food Production

Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Hina Khan Sherwani and Rui Su

10410: Water Constraints to Agricultural Productivity in Bhutan

Felipe Fadullon Dizon, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Jisang Yu

10409: Fiscal Policy Volatility and Growth in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Francisco Arroyo Marioli, Antonio Fatas and Garima Vasishtha

10408: After Big Droughts Come Big Cities: Does Drought Drive Urbanization?

Vladimir Chlouba, Megha Mukim and Esha Dilip Zaveri

10407: A Framework for the Economic Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions

Thomas David Wilkinson, Mengxiao Wang, Jed Friedman and Marelize Prestidge

10406: Data Transparency and GDP Growth Forecast Errors

Roberta V. Gatti, Daniel Lederman, Asif Islam, Ha Nguyen, Rana Mohamed Amr Mohamed Nabil Lotfi and Mennatallah Emam Mohamed Sayed Mousa

10405: Does Agricultural Intensification Pay ?

Dossou Ghislain Boris Aihounton and Luc Christiaensen

10404: The ABCs of the Role of Public Transport in Women’s Economic Empowerment

Muneeza Mehmood Alam, Lisa Serena Bagnoli and Tamara Kerzhner

10403: Export Survival: The Role of Banks and Stock Markets

Melise Jaud, Madina Kukenova and Martin Strieborny

10402: Global Footprints of U.S. Energy Innovations: Energy Efficiency and the Shale Revolution

Hamza Zahid

10401: Commodity Price Cycles: Commonalities, Heterogeneities, and Drivers

Alain Kabundi and Hamza Zahid

10400: People's Unequal Exposure to Air Pollution: Evidence for the World's Coal-Fired Power Plants

Xinming Du, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Jason Daniel Russ

10399: The Effect of Agricultural Input Subsidies on Productivity: A Meta-Analysis

Linh Nguyen, Jason Daniel Russ and Margaret Maggie Triyana

10398: Distributional and Health Co-Benefits of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms — Evidence from 35 Countries

Christoph Michael Klaiber, Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler and Ira Irina Dorband

10397: Fossil Fuel Prices and Air Pollution: Evidence from a Panel of 133 Countries

Kentaro Florian Mayr and Jun Erik Maruyama Rentschler

10396: Why Do People Move ? A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying and Predicting Gender-Specific Aspirations to Migrate

Daniel Zefanya Halim and Suneha Seetahul

10395: Candle in the Wind ? Insights from COVID-19 Emergency Cash Transfers to Informal Sector Workers in Sierra Leone

Samik Adhikari and Suneha Seetahul

10394: Corporate Tax Rates, Allocative Efficiency, and Aggregate Productivity

Marcos Dinerstein and Fausto Andres Patino Pena

10393: The Unintended Consequences of Curfews on Road Safety

World Bank, Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Amy Dolinger, Caitlin Fitzgerald Dolkart, Arianna Legovini, Sveta Milusheva, Robert Andrew Marty and Peter Ngwa Taniform

10392: Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing ? And If So, Why? And What Is Next?

Pinelopi Goldberg and Tristan Reed

10391: Identifying and Monitoring Priority Areas for Methane Emissions Reduction

Susmita Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall and David Wheeler

10390: Introducing E-Procurement in Bangladesh: The Promise of Efficiency and Openness

Jurgen Rene Blum, Arkopal Datta, Mihály Fazekas, Sushmita Samaddar and Ishtiak Siddique

10389: Land Institutions to Address New Challenges in Africa: Implications for the World Bank’s Land Policy

Klaus W. Deininger and Aparajita Goyal

10388: Product Market Monopolies and Labor Market Monopsonies

Massimiliano Calì and Giorgio Presidente

10387: Simulating the Effect of Business Tax Abolition through a New Regional CGE Model: Evidence from Italy

Alessio Baldassarre, Valerio Ferdinando Calà, Danilo Carullo, Hasan Dudu, Elisa Marie Fusco, Pasquale Giacobbe and Carlo Orecchia

10386: Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets

Guadalupe Bedoya Arguelles, Jishnu Das and Amy Dolinger

10385: Land and Mortgage Markets in Ukraine: Pre-War Performance, War Effects, and Implications for Recovery

Klaus W. Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali

10384: Access to Credit and Bank Ownership: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Mario Di Filippo and Ugo Panizza